Explore the history and sacrifice of Eyam, the Peak District village that quarantined itself to stop the plague in 1666, ...

In 1665, London faced one of its deadliest disasters—the Great Plague. The bubonic plague, carried by rats and fleas, spread rapidly through the city, killing tens of thousands. China surgeon ...

Over the following centuries, plague returned many times, with a particularly deadly outbreak in the British Isles in 1665 and 1666. It’s 1645, and the plague that is ravaging Europe has arrived ...

The plague remained a constant, though diminished, presence over the next two centuries. But in 1665, it returned to England. This single yearlong outbreak, known as the Great Plague, claimed the ...

De Lorme gained fame as plague swept through Western Europe, and the outfit remained in use for more than a century. Medical professionals wore it during 1656 outbreaks in Italy, the 1665 London ...

On March 6, 1665, Henry Oldenburg, secretary of the fledgling Royal Society of London, published the first volume of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London—now the ...